there is a case in virginia that we know of. there is also a spy who carried messages from london to paris to benjamin franklin. he used false heels on his boots to carry the message. washington's deception. the one thing i do have to say about washington. for somebody who never told a lie, he certainly stretched the truth about a lot. up in cambridge when he first takes over the american army, they were down actually nine rounds per man. nine shots, that was it. as far as the gunpowder they actually had in the camp. he notes there was british spies going around the american camp so what he did was, he had a shipment of barrels brought up from providence, rhode island, mark gunpowder. the only problem is, inside the barrels with sand. so the british spies would go back and report that the americans had plenty of gunpowder and they would able to keep the seat siege up for a long time. he also did a thing called truth multiplication at moorestown. after the battles of trenton and princeton, the american army goes up decamp moorest